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Odor of Despair. Built in 1941 to house 3,000, Willowbrook now has a population of 5,200. Half the "patients" are under 21, and at least three-quarters are classified as "profoundly" retarded (IQ under 20) or "severely" retarded (under 36). For a handful of its residents, the school lives up to its name: it has a clean, new and well-staffed education section where "moderately" (IQ from 36 to 52) and "mildly" (from 53 to 68) retarded children live in small brightly decorated dormitories. These youngsters, considered trainable, attend classes that teach reading and self-care...
...call it "the story of a boy who got a girl out of trouble," but To Find a Man isn't quite so bad as it sounds. Andy (Darren O'Connor) is a wealthy teen-ager with a high-power IQ. His childhood chum Rosalind (Pamela Martin), who has recently acquired what her mother characterizes as "the worst case of the hots I've ever seen," has got pregnant. She spends a lot of time at her fancy board ing school trying to give herself an abortion. When the usual dormitory methods - castor oil, Coca-Cola douch...
...perhaps even mayor of New York City in 1973. Whatever happens, her bravado is impressive. "Thirty-six or more persons have been President of these United States," she said last week. "Experientially and educationally, I am better than all, excepting six or seven. I have a near genius IQ-close to 160. I am a very brilliant-minded woman...
Concerned members of Dunster House sent a letter with 107 signatures last month to each of the signers of a November 29 statement questioning whether Herrnstein's article on IQ, which appeared in the September issue of Atlantic constituted "legitimate scholarship...
Coerced Statement. Armed with a high IQ (154), Smith used his cell time to take college correspondence courses and study law. Over the years he lodged 19 appeals to federal and state courts while delaying execution dates. Public interest in his case mounted, and National Review Editor William Buckley became a friend and patron...